Author: Margaret McKeon

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Book release – Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place

This exciting new anthology strongly address themes of ecopoetics.

Here is the description from Vernon Press

“In the tradition of a decade of bi-annual gatherings of the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, this volume serves as the fifth refereed symposium anthology. Enchantment of Place celebrates poetry and poetic voices—theorizing and exploring poetic inquiry as an approach, methodology, and/or method for use in contemporary research practices.

Poetic inquiry has increased in prominence as a legitimate means by which to collect, assimilate, analyze, and share the results of research across many disciplines. With this collection, we hope to continue to lay the groundwork internationally, for researchers, scholars, graduate students, and the larger community to take up poetic inquiry as a way to approach knowledge generation, learning, and sharing.

This volume specifically works to draw attention to the ancient connection between poetry and the natural world with attention to broadening the ecological scope and impact of the work of poetic inquirers. “

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Reflection on our June 23 Ecopoetics walk through UBC campus

Among many other things, it felt like the stories shared on our walk explored time and timelessness of place; how place stories and is storied by deep time, individual and communal time, and the experience of our own lives.

I am fascinated by how languages and naming paint time on this landscape like cycles of sun and dark on rings of a tree and the lengthening of reach of a cedar trunk over 8 centuries.

Stories are like little time capsules. They carry pieces of truth and meaning over time. Whether it is a myth from 4000 years ago or your own untold story from childhood, the meaning waits like a dry ration; only by the next telling does it enlarge and soften to become edible. It is the sweat and tears of the telling that bring the meaning out of its sleep as if no time has passed. It is the telling that heals. Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening, 2000, p. 303-304 

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River of Words: An Ecopoetry Resource

River of Words Young poets and artists on the nature of things

Some description of River of Words from the ROW website where this free resource comes from: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/center-for-environmental-literacy/river-of-words

Promoting Environmental Literacy through the Arts and Cultural Exchange

River of Words® (ROW) is a program of The Center for Environmental Literacy and a part of the Kalmanovitz School of Education.  Acknowledged pioneers in the field of place-based education, River of Words has been inspiring educators and their students for over seventeen years with an innovative blend of science and the arts.

River of Words is its own watershed: a linked network of people throughout the United States and the world who are committed to teaching the art and poetry of place to young people. Since 1995, River of Words has encouraged young people to explore and savor the watersheds where they live and trained educators to guide them with inspiration and passion. Through professional development and other educational services, traveling exhibits, publications and community programs, ROW reaches thousands of educators and young people around the world.

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